Hello, Same scenario as yours running with 20 analogue lines though. Core2Quad Q6700, 2GB DDR2, 2X 500GB HDD (RAID), and lots of calls daily. CPU has been less than 5% always. Spent 25% HDD space in 6 months. Solution is to upgrade them in two years at which time they should pay ;) UPS power backup, Linksys router with DD-WRT, 40 Aastra 53i, Linksys POE switch and some good professional cable drop all over the building. Except for the DD-WRT router going down when power went down and not coming back up, everything is fine. UPS helped the situation. -Bruce
---------------------------------------- > Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 01:03:36 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Supermicro system + centos 5.x + sangoma A102D > > You don't need all that power. > > Just a pair of mirrored drives is all you need for redundancy. Asterisk > doesn't impose nearly enough I/O load to require an expensive drive > array such as that. > > And 40 users are very unlikely to use even 50% that PRI at any one time. > That won't be a heavily-loaded system, even if everybody's on the phone > all the time. > > You don't need to spend all that money on the server. A core2duo has > more than enough juice to do the job. > > Why not buy two less expensive servers, and provision the 2nd one as a > hot standby? That'll give you much more redundancy than just one beefy > server, for probably less money. > > CentOS 5.3 runs asterisk well, and Sangoma makes great cards. > > Jim > > -- > Jim Van Meggelen > [email protected] > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 > > "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. > This makes me rich." > Guy Kawasaki > > > > > > Elliott Jeyaseelan wrote: >> Looking to build a production asterisk server for 40 sip phones and >> allstream's PRI. >> >> Anyone willing share their experiences and any gotchas to look out for, >> I am looking into Supermicro server with LSI raid control 8204 in a raid >> 5 configuration. >> >> Any supermicro motherboard recommendation would be helpful. >> >> OS of choice : Centos 5.2 or 5.3 >> >> Appreciate your input. >> >> Thanks, >> Elliott >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >> > > > -- > > > -- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > _________________________________________________________________ Internet explorer 8 lets you browse the web faster. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9655582 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
